Justinian Ii

Author : Peter Crawford
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1526755319
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Justinian II written by Peter Crawford and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2021-10-13 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An exceptional, well written, exhaustively researched, and detailed biography” of the controversial Roman emperor—from the author of Constantius II (Midwest Book Review). Justinian II became Roman emperor at a time when the Empire was beset by external enemies. His forces gained success against the Arabs and Bulgars but his religious and social policies fueled internal opposition which resulted in him being deposed and mutilated (his nose was cut off) in 695. After a decade in exile, during which he strangled two would-be assassins with his bare hands, he regained power through a coup d’etat with the backing of the erstwhile Bulgar enemy (an alliance sealed by the marriage of his daughter, Anastasia). His second reign was seemingly harsher and again beset by both external and internal threats and dissension over doctrinal matters. An energetic and active ruler, his reign saw developments in various areas, including numismatics, administration, finance and architecture, but he was deposed a second time in 711 and beheaded. Drawing on all the available evidence and the most recent research, Peter Crawford makes a long-overdue re-assessment of Justinian’s colorful but troubled career and asks if he fully deserves his poor reputation.

Author : Constance Head
Publisher : Madison : University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Justinian II of Byzantium written by Constance Head and published by Madison : University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : H. N. Turteltaub
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 031287166X
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Justinian written by H. N. Turteltaub and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the nation's leading Byzantine scholars comes a fictional look at the vicious reign of Justinian II, Emperor of the Romans in the seventh century and one of history's most desperate and brutal rulers. "Electrifying...An artfully styled narrative and painstaking attention to historical detail vivify this mesmerizing account of one of history's most remarkable rulers." --Booklist At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Patrizio Corda
Publisher : Patrizio Corda
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rhinotmetus. The Memoir of Justinian II written by Patrizio Corda and published by Patrizio Corda. This book was released on 2021-07-02 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 714 AD - Finally exiled in Bulgaria, Anastasia, former basilissa of the Romans, jealously guards an heirloom. An handwritten manuscript, penned by none other than her late son, basileus Justinian II, also known as the Rhinotmetus. In those posthumous pages is recounted the tumultuous existence of an emperor who rose to power when he was very young, and was able to hold it for most of his life. Between those lines is traced an honest and uncensored portrait of one of the cruelest and most hated regents of imperial history, best known for his terrifying reprisals. The many moments of glory will be followed by others extremely dark, made of treachery, vengeance, massacres and conspiracies. This until the moment in which everything will collapse, sanctioning the end of the Eraclian dynasty, which which had undisputedly ruled over the Eastern Roman Empire for over a century.

Author : John W. Barker
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299039448
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Justinian and the Later Roman Empire written by John W. Barker and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eastern half of the Roman Empire, economically the stronger, did not "fall" but continued almost intact, safe in the new capital of Constantinople. This empire is the subject of John Barker Jr.'s book and the central focus of his examination of questions of continuity and change.

Author : James Douglas Breckenridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Numismatic Iconography of Justinian II (685-695, 705-711 A.D.) written by James Douglas Breckenridge and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel Dewey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reigns of Justinian II (685-695 and 705-711) written by Daniel Dewey and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Justinian I (Emperor of the East)
Publisher : St Vladimir's Seminary Press
ISBN 13 : 9780881410891
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Person of Christ written by Justinian I (Emperor of the East) and published by St Vladimir's Seminary Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the opening of the sixth century, large segments of the Roman Empire had fallen to barbarian warlords. The Churches of Rome and Constantinople were locked in a schism rooted in different attitudes towards the decrees and definitions of the Fourth Ecumenical council held at Chalcedon in 451. The emperor Justinian (527-565) dreamed of reunifying and restoring the Empire; but to accomplish this he needed a unified Church. Before Justinian ascended the throne the schism between Rome and Constantinople had been healed, largely due to Justinian's influence, but a significant segment of the Eastern population (dubbed monophysites) would not accept the union and the imperial church remained divided.

Author : Ben Thompson
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061959170
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Badass written by Ben Thompson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The badasses populating the pages of Badass are the most savagely awesome historical figures to ever strap on a pair of chain mail gauntlets and run screaming into battle. Author Ben Thompson—considered by many to be the Internet’s foremost expert on badassitude—has gathered together a rogues’ gallery of butt-stomping rogues, from Julius Caesar and Genghis Khan to Blackbeard, George S. Patton, and Bruce Lee. Their bone-breaking exploits are illustrated by top artist from the fields of gaming, comics, and cards—DC Comics illustrator Matt Haley and Thomas Denmark, illustrator for the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering. This is not your boring high school history—this is tough, manly, unrelentingly Badass!

Author : Peter Heather
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199362750
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rome Resurgent written by Peter Heather and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the fall of the western Roman Empire in the fifth century and the collapse of the east in the face of the Arab invasions in the seventh, the remarkable era of the Emperor Justinian (527-568) dominated the Mediterranean region. Famous for his conquests in Italy and North Africa, and for the creation of spectacular monuments such as the Hagia Sophia, his reign was also marked by global religious conflict within the Christian world and an outbreak of plague that some have compared to the Black Death. For many historians, Justinian is far more than an anomaly of Byzantine ambition between the eras of Attila and Muhammad; he is the causal link that binds together the two moments of Roman imperial collapse. Determined to reverse the losses Rome suffered in the fifth century, Justinian unleashed an aggressive campaign in the face of tremendous adversity, not least the plague. This book offers a fundamentally new interpretation of his conquest policy and its overall strategic effect, which has often been seen as imperial overreach, making the regime vulnerable to the Islamic takeover of its richest territories in the seventh century and thus transforming the great Roman Empire of Late Antiquity into its pale shadow of the Middle Ages. In Rome Resurgent, historian Peter Heather draws heavily upon contemporary sources, including the writings of Procopius, the principal historian of the time, while also recasting that author's narrative by bringing together new perspectives based on a wide array of additional source material. A huge body of archaeological evidence has become available for the sixth century, providing entirely new means of understanding the overall effects of Justinian's war policies. Building on his own distinguished work on the Vandals, Goths, and Persians, Heather also gives much fuller coverage to Rome's enemies than Procopius ever did. A briskly paced narrative by a master historian, Rome Resurgent promises to introduce readers to this captivating and unjustly overlooked chapter in ancient warfare.